Life sciences clusters of North America Seattle, USA San Francisco, USA Los Angeles, USA San Diego, USA Saskatoon, Canada Minneapolis/St. Paul/Rochester USA Austin, USA Toronto, Canada Montreal, Canada Boston, USA…
Fig. 13.1 Genetic engineering in phytoremediation Metal-hyperaccumulating plants and microbes with unique abilities to tolerate, accumulate, and detoxify metals and metalloids represent an important reservoir of unique genes. These genes could…
Techniques Marker type Require prior molecular information Mode of inheritance Degree of polymorphism Major applications Discoverer Non PCR-based techniques Restriction fragment length polymorphism Yes Mendelian, codominant Low Linkage mapping, Physical…
Fig. 5.1 Mechanism of RNA interference 5.5.1 Initiation This stage is characterized by generation of siRNA mediated by type III endonuclease Dicer. It appears that the RNAi machinery, once it finds…
